SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 -- Southern Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company, has expanded its Florida customer base with the addition of FiberLight, provider of network infrastructure solutions and strategic network design services. Southern Telecom provides wholesale dark fiber-optic cable and co-location solutions to large enterprise and telecom carrier customers.
Southern Telecom has 1,200-route miles of fiber installed in the Southeast. To best serve customers throughout the region, Southern Telecom also builds spurs off this route to support many nearby tier two-plus cities. The company's extensive Florida fiber network connects multiple cities from Jacksonville to Miami to Tampa to Orlando.
FiberLight is utilizing the Southern Telecom Florida fiber network to connect two of its major network cities. FiberLight built extensive fiber networks in Tampa and Lakeland, FL, approximately 30 miles apart, and selected Southern Telecom to provide the "middle mile" connectivity between the two.
"Southern Telecom's flexibility in providing a tie-in to our existing metro networks along with their reasonable pricing and 'enabling' attitude was critical in allowing FiberLight to maintain its aggressive growth in providing fiber services to its broad base of traditional and wireless carriers as well as large enterprise customers," notes Wade Robertson, senior vice president of business development at FiberLight. Visit Southern TelecomVisit FiberLight